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Updated with new readings on the 2004 election, the war in Iraq, the press and the Bush presidency, supreme course nominations, and the unitary powers of the presidency, the new edition of this popular reader gives students the analytical tools needed to make sense of the modern presidency and its relationship with other key players in our political system. The selections in this reader were chosen with two aims in mind: (1) to provide a historical perspective, so often neglected in similar texts, that explains how the events of the past two ce... MORE

Preface

vii

SECTION 1 Constitutional Origins of the Presidency

(38)

READING 1 James Madison to Thomas Jefferson

(2)

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James Madison

READING 2 Federalist No. 69

(3)

Alexander Hamilton

READING 3 Federalist No. 70

(3)

Alexander Hamilton

READING 4 Constitutional Qualifications for President

(9)

Michael Nelson

READING 5 Reevaluating the Electoral College

(16)

James P. Pfiffner

SECTION 2 Historical Perspectives on the Presidency

(30)

READING 6 The Strict Constructionist Presidency

(2)

William Howard Taft

READING 7 The Stewardship Presidency

(2)

Theodore Roosevelt

READING 8 The Public Presidency

(3)

Woodrow Wilson

READING 9 The Prerogative Presidency

(2)

Abraham Lincoln

READING 10 Toward a Modern Presidency

(3)

Fred 1. Greenstein

READING 11 The Presidency in the Political Order

(11)

Stephen Skowronek

SECTION 3 Selecting Presidents: Campaigns, Elections, and Mandates

(88)

READING 12 Nomination Politics, Party Unity, and Presidential Elections

(17)

James E. Campbell

READING 13 Campaigning For Cash Under New Rules: Presidential Fundraising in 2004

(16)

Louis Dezseran and Clyde Wilcox

READING 14 Party Favors

107

(3)

Robert B. Reich

READING 15 The Presidential Election of 2000

110

(8)

Gerald M. Pomper

READING 16 The Presidential "Hundred Days"

118

(5)

Richard E. Neustadt

READING 17 The Myth of Presidential Mandate

123

(10)

Robert A. Dahl

READING 18 Presidential Campaigning and Presidential Governance The Case of 2004

133

(16)

Roger H. Davidson

READING 19 The "Permanent Campaign"

149

(8)

Hugh Heclo

SECTION 4 The Public Presidency: Press, Media, and Public Approval

157

(72)

READING 20 The Press and the Presidency

161

(12)

Mark J. Rozell

READING 21 The Presidency And Image Management: Discipline In Pursuit Of Illusion

173

(12)

Jeremy D. Mayer, George Mason University

READING 22 The Presidential Pulpit: Bully or Baloney?

185

(10)

George C. Edwards, III

READING 23 Presidential Persuasion and Press Coverage of the War in Iraq

195

(18)

Caroline Heldman

READING 24 Presidential Impeachment Politics

213

(16)

Richard M. Pious

SECTION 5 The Institutional Presidency

229

(60)

READING 25 The White House Staff

233

(2)

The President's Committee on Administrative Management (Brownlow Committee)

READING 26 Can the President Manage the Government?

235

(17)

James P. Pfiffner

READING 27 Locked in the Cabinet

252

(8)

Robert B. Reich

READING 28 The Changing Presidential Office

260

(11)

Hugh Heclo

READING 29 Bureaucracy in the American Constitutional Order

271

(8)

Francis E. Rourke

READING 30 Presidential Appointments and the Office of Presidential Personnel

279

(10)

Bradley H. Patterson and James P. Pfiffner

SECTION 6 The Separation of Powers

289

(50)

READING 31 Presidential Relations with Congress

292

(16)

Roger H. Davidson

READING 32 The Disappearing Political Center

308

(5)

Sarah A. Binder

READING 33 Is the Separation of Powers Obsolete? The Congressional-Presidential Balance of Power

313

(15)

Robert J. Spitzer

READING 34 Presidents and the Judicial Appointment Process

328

(11)

John Anthony Maltese

SECTION 7 Domestic Policy Leadership

339

(44)

READING 35 The Hundred Days

342

(7)

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

READING 36 The Power to Persuade

349

(6)

Richard E. Neustadt

READING 37 The Presidency and Domestic Policy: the Civil Rights Act of 1964

355

(12)

Robert D. Loevy

READING 38 Unilateral Powers: A Brief Overview

367

(16)

William G. Howell

SECTION 8 Commander-in-Chief and National Security

383

(60)

READING 39 Invitation to Struggle: The President, Congress, and National Security

386

(10)

Louis Fisher

READING 40 Deference and Defiance: The Shifting Rhythms of Executive-Legislative Relations in Foreign Policy

396

(18)

James A. Lindsay

READING 41 Demise of the War Clause

414

(7)

David Mervin

READING 42 Iran�Contra: What Was Wrong

421

(11)

Report of the President's Special Review Board

READING 43 Condoleezza Rice as NSC Advisor

432

(11)

John P. Burke

SECTION 9 Evaluating Presidents: Greatness and Abuse of Power

443

READING 44 Three Crises of Character in the Modern Presidency

446

(17)

James P. Pfiffner

READING 45 Being Liked and Being President

463

(5)

Paul Brace and Barbara Hinckley

READING 46 "If Men Were Angels...": Presidential Leadership and Accountability

468

(6)

Thomas E. Cronin and Michael A. Genovese

READING 47 The Transformation of the Bush Presidency

474

(20)

James P. Pfiffner

READING 48 A New Imperial Presidency?

494

Andrew Rudalevige

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